The Lance

Topic: General                                                                                                                                              Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week, Modularity can be achieved by confining the impact of change within the module, a well-defined boundary without leaks. JDK9s Modules offered preliminary isolation for packaged module structures, however at an application level module accesses should be rule defined. Spring Modulith with ArchUnit and...

Topic: General                                                                                                                                              Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week, Spring framework 6.0 has been released and is available in Maven central. It used JDK 17 as a baseline, and Jakarta EE 9+ with specifications for Servlet 6.0 and JPA 3.1 facilitating access to Tomcat 10.1 and Hibernate ORM 6.1 respectively. Spring application contexts support AOT transformation proc...

Topic: General                                                                                                                                             Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week, Dealing with checked exceptions in functional interfaces via lambdas in Java Streams shatters the intent of a simplified functional pipeline making it verbose. By extracting the exception handling block to a class, Lombok annotation SneakyThrow, Apache Commons Lang Failable stream API, and Varv functional...

Topic: GraalVM                                                                                                                            Level: Advanced Spring on GraalVM Implementation In this consecutive post ( prior post ), we shall exploit the theory of the previous post on GraalVM, Native Image, and Spring Native and set up a Spring Boot project running on GraalVM that leverages static analysis and linkage during the build time with ahead-of-time compilation delivering a windows native executable. Prerequisites GraalVM JDK 11 distribution ( https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/tag/vm-22.3.0 ) - ensure...